You have to say something emotionally true before you can let your imagination wander.´ Simon cites John Lennon as another songwriter who presents his audience with ´little stories that are enigmatic´ and from which the audience can derive their own truths.
´I´ve always believed that you need a truthful first line to kick you off into a song. Simon sees truth as a goal in his song writing, a truth that extends beyond the reality of his personal experience. Simon´s personal experiences with divorce and separation as expressed in his music provide attorneys an opportunity for a vicarious experience that might promote a better understanding of clients and their viewpoints. As Simon said in a 1986 interview, ´I suppose an artist is someone who takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.´ A poet, a songwriter, an artist, a novelist´”all attempt to give the auditor or reader self-awareness from their words. Paul Simon, through his songs, offers us the same experience as do poets through their work. We can experience another´s feelings and emotions through poetry´”emotions and circumstances to which we would not otherwise have access. In seeking to empathize with a client who experiences emotions attorneys have never felt, attorneys may profitably study popular music. Attorneys who have not personally experienced the emotional roller coaster on which litigants in a divorce action must ride can only understand their clients´ emotions vicariously, yet only with an understanding of the clients´ feelings can the attorney properly advise and counsel them.
Few areas of practice provide the dangers of misunderstanding that present themselves daily to the divorce practitioner.
When attorneys fail to account for the emotions which color their clients´ stated goals, they cannot gain a true picture of what course of action best serves the client. THE ARC OF LOVE: DIVORCE AND SEPARATION IN THE SONGS OF PAUL SIMONįailing to understand their clients´ goals and desires, attorneys may give the wrong advice. The Arc of Love: Divorce and Separation in the songs of Paul Simon
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